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A simple folded paper plane. Folding instructions for a traditional paper dart. A paper plane (also known as a paper airplane or paper dart in American English, or paper aeroplane in British English) is a toy aircraft, usually a glider, made out of single folded sheet of paper or paperboard. It typically takes the form of a simple nose-heavy ...
FlightGear Flight Simulator (often shortened to FlightGear or FGFS) is a free, open source multi-platform flight simulator developed by the FlightGear project since 1997. [ 4] David Murr started this project on April 8, 1996. This project had its first release in 1997 and continued in development.
Flight simulator. F/A-18 Hornet flight simulator aboard the USS Independence aircraft carrier. A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they react to ...
Stewart platforms are known by various other names. In many applications, including in flight simulators, it is commonly referred to as a motion base. [1] It is sometimes called a six-axis platform or 6-DoF platform because of its possible motions and, because the motions are produced by a combination of movements of multiple actuators, it may ...
The Bell Aerosystems Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV, nicknamed the Flying Bedstead) [1] was a Project Apollo era program to build a simulator for the Moon landings.The LLRVs were used by the FRC, now known as the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the Apollo Lunar Module in the Moon ...
Falcon (series) The Falcon line of computer games is a series of simulations of the F-16 Fighting Falcon combat aircraft. The games, mostly published by Spectrum HoloByte, were noted for their high level of realism unseen in contemporary simulation games. On May 4, 2023, MicroProse announced it had re-acquired the copyright to the Falcon series.
Yasuaki Ninomiya is a Japanese aircraft designer. He is the creator of the "WhiteWings" line of paperboard aircraft, [1] described as "the Ferraris of paper airplanes" by a curator of the National Air and Space Museum. [2] He created paper airplanes since childhood and on Christmas Eve, 1966 learned that he could enter his designs in the First ...
The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space ( PARIS) project was a privately organized endeavour undertaken by various staff members of the British information technology website The Register to design, build, test, and launch a lightweight aerospace vehicle, constructed mostly of paper and similar structural materials, into the mid- stratosphere ...